Nancy Garruba is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer. She is a recipient of grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Washington Project for the Arts, and Art Matters Inc; and of numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. She has taught writing and artists’ book design at the Corcoran College of Art, University of Maryland, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Her artists’ books, widely exhibited and collected, can be seen in these museums and libraries.

Nancy has been a resident at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and Franklin Furnace.

Her novel, True Noble, was a finalist for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize.